, 1887-01-18
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences in and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.

The supreme court convened yesterday.
Charles T, Hinker died last Sunday
morning.
Corn brings only thirteen cents a bushel
at Howard, Neb.
Dog owners are beginning to think of
dog licenses again.
The Lusk shooting affray has created
quite a furore in this city.
Ira l.. Fredendall was elected chief of
the fire department last evening.
In Arizona men with fur caps are set
down as tenderfeet from the Fast.
The members of the fire department
had quite an exciting time last evening,
Several cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported in this city and in Camp Carlin.
The Nevada Legislature will repeal the
anti-treating law, passed two years ago.
Toughnut street is the name OF
the principal thoroughfare in Tomb
stone, A. t.
ldelman Bros. are the agents for the
Belle Of Bourbon, so extensively published
in to-day's LEADER.
One man broke two faro banks in Car
sou, New, the other night, and was sere-
naded by a brass band.
Two hundred and thirty. four members
of the fire department of this city were
present at the meeting last evening.
Twenty-four hours after the Oregon
chinook the warm wind reached Fort
Keough, NJ. T., this week, the mercury
had risen 900.
General Superintendent Dickinson. of
the Union Pacific, is in the city and will
go out to the terminus of the Cheyenne
& Northern to day.
The water in the capitol well at Bis
marck has stopped flowing, but a local
paper says the members of the legislature
haven't found it out yet.
In Montana the high hat nuisance at
theaters promises to be short-liv The
crowd yells Shoot the hatl'' and the
show can not 90 on until it is taken off.
There will be a regular communication
of Wyoming Chapter No. |. r. A. NJ,
at Masonic hall this Tuesday evening at
7:30 O'Clock, sharp. f. P. Snow sec
tary.
The amateur dramatic company of
Pelouse, City, w. T., broke up in a fight
with guns and knives because it could not
be decided which one of the three men
should play Macbeth"
General Manager Galloway and Cen
eral Superintendent Smith who were ex-
pected to arrive in this city from Denver
this evening, have been recalled to Omaha
and hence will not come to this city.
Sam Dodd, a Devils Lake, Oak, man,
whose cattle wandered off in the blizzard,
drove forty miles with a prairie sleigh into
Montana and found them. He drove
them home and now has eighty head
dressed and ready for market.
Sheriff Sharpless put the county to
needless expense when he employed four
assistants to accompany him to Lusk.
Among the many people of that place
there are all the l~aw-abiding citizens he
can possibly need to aid him in the en-
forcement of the law.
The Prescott, "a. T.) Miner has the
following: rs this reservoir water
healthy asked a newcomer of an old
H~assayamper. do you see hat mule,
stranger YES, sir" well ten
months ago that mule was a jack rabbit,
and drinking this water made him what
he is to-day"
The contest for the position of chief of
the fire department of this city between
Ira l.. Fredendall and Geo. c. Bescherer
last night was a very close one. Either
one of the two would have made an ex-
cellent chief, and THE LEADER can but
extend its congratulations to one and its
regrets to the other.
IThe admirers of Buffalo Bill in North
Platte, Neb., and vicinity, are negotiating
for a special car to take a party of forty
to New York to witness the Wild Vest
show in Madison Garden. The only